Food is not just fuel. Food is about family, food is about community, food is about identity. And we nourish all those things when we eat well.

In addition to contributing to erosion, pollution, food poisoning, and the dead zone, corn requires huge amounts of fossil fuel - it takes a half gallon of fossil fuel to produce a bushel of corn.

People in Slow Food understand that food is an environmental issue.

Were the walls of our meat industry to become transparent, literally or even figuratively, we would not long continue to raise, kill, and eat animals the way we do.

The correlation between poverty and obesity can be traced to agricultural policies and subsidies.

If it came from a plant, eat it; if it was made in a plant, don't.

Eat food. Not too much. Mostly plants.

A lawn is nature under totalitarian rule.

Cooking (from scratch) is the single most important thing we could do as a family to improve our health and general well-being.

People say they don't have time to cook, yet in the last few years we have found an extra two hours a day for the internet.

Most important thing about your diet is who cooks it, a human or a corporation.

A wise man who cultivates wisdom may sometimes drown in it.

Whoever doesn't flare up at someone who's angry wins a battle hard to win.

Our choosing the right consistently whenever the choice is placed before us creates the solid ground under our faith

What matters is not publication or success (success is bad for your prose) but the practice of the imaginative act. Our damaged values depend on it.

Anything a man can imagine, another can create

I specifically ordered Persian rugs with cherub imagery!!! What do I have to do to get a simple Persian rug with cherub imagery uuuuugh.

Cats are a standing rebuke to behavioral scientists wanting to know how the minds of animals work. The mind of a cat is an unscrutable mystery.

But, you see, that's the luxury of being a lout - you get to be selective about when you care and when you don't. The rest of us get stuck when your care goes shallow.

The western is a universal frame within which it's possible to comment on today.

I love being the age I am, because if there's enough pain or grief, I have enough experience now to realize that there's joy coming around the corner.